Infrastructure Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 120 143
Rank change year-on-year +33 +23 +21
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Management 15 25 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.99% 0.93% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.07% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 7
10th Percentile £438 £470 £385
25th Percentile £444 £489 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +29.03%
75th Percentile £525 £525 £525
90th Percentile £550 £570 £620
South East median daily rate £500 £433 £500
% change year-on-year +15.61% -13.50% -34.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Infrastructure Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Management in the Thames Valley

Infrastructure Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +26 15 £475 - 11
Infrastructure Management
South East

Infrastructure Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (13.33%) GitHub
1 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
1 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure App Service
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) BGP
1 2 (13.33%) DNS
1 2 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (13.33%) IPv6
1 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
1 2 (13.33%) OSPF
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
1 2 (13.33%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (13.33%) TACACS
1 2 (13.33%) VSAN
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Electronics
4 2 (13.33%) Law
4 2 (13.33%) Legal
4 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (13.33%) Applications Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Architect
1 2 (13.33%) Commercial Manager
1 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (6.67%) Administrator
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Data Centre Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Data Manager
2 1 (6.67%) Developer
2 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (6.67%) IT Administrator
2 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Network Administrator
2 1 (6.67%) Network Support
2 1 (6.67%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) Apache Axis
1 2 (13.33%) YAML
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (6.67%) REST
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Contract Management
4 2 (13.33%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (13.33%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (13.33%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 2 (13.33%) Microservices
4 2 (13.33%) Programme Management
4 2 (13.33%) Runbook
4 2 (13.33%) SIEM
4 2 (13.33%) SOA
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Ruby
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
4 1 (6.67%) X++
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CISSP
3 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (6.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Ceph
2 2 (13.33%) NFS
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Argo
1 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (13.33%) vRealize
1 2 (13.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) Dell
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (13.33%) SAP
2 2 (13.33%) VMware
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow